Alex and the group arrived at the last of the 10 herb fields. They had sped up their journey as much as they could, and even with Alex taking as many herbs as he could find, it had only taken them 3 days to get here.
And the day was barely halfway done. There could still go to another two fields if they tried their best.
They had to cross another small stream of water to get here as they did with almost all the fields.
Each field had a toll guard, but they were allowed in freely. There were quite a few people in every field, but very few were gathered in one place, so the area was empty the majority of the time.
When they did meet people, most would just greet and walk past them. Everyone was busy gathering their own stuff.
As Alex gathered, Fang Yimu watched him pick up the herbs and couldn't help but get curious.
"Your majesty, I have been meaning to ask something for the past 3 days," she said.
"What is it?" Alex asked, turning around to look at her through his patterned mask.
"So… I can tell that you are picking whatever you can find," she said. "But… is there more reason to it? Surely you aren't taking whatever you can get your hands on, right?"
"I am," Alex said. It was just that simple. He was used to taking most of what grew when he found it, and the habit hadn't gone away, and neither would it any time soon.
"Really? I thought as a King you would have no need to do this," she said.
"Well, I wouldn't normally," Alex said. "But recently, I've been inspired by some of the events that have taken place around me. To be truthful, it is something that has stuck in the back of my head for the entire year, but only during this 3 months tour I took through the many cities that I realized what it was that I wanted to do."
The girls got curious. "What is it that you want to do, your majesty?" Talia asked.
Alex smiled and said, "That's a secret."
The girls frowned. "Can you not tell us?" Fang Yimu asked.
"I'm afraid not. It's just too important to just give it away randomly. But… what I can tell you is for what I am planning, I have no idea what I am going to need."
"As a result, my best course of action is to get whatever it is that I can from this field. So, that is what I am doing. I'm hopeful that I will be successful in what I am planning," Alex said.
"Ooh, I am very curious about what it is that you want to do, your majesty," Talia said. "Would you mind telling us if you ever achieve it?"
"Hmm, sure," Alex said. "Although that would require for me to still be here by that time."
"Oh, will it take a long time?" Talia asked.
"I have absolutely no idea how long any of this will take, but due to my relative lack of expertise in that field, I will assume that it could take anywhere from a decade to a century."
"If my luck is ever so horrendously bad, it may even take over a millennium. Maybe I will become an Immortal before I am done with what I have in mind," he said.
"Woah," the two girls couldn't help but be surprised at the words.
"You seem to be planning something great, your majesty," Fang Yimu.
"Immortal realm…" Talia was simply fascinated by those words. "Is that even possible at all?"
"It certainly is," Alex said. "Especially to you, Talia. As a player, you have incredible talent that most that were born native in these continents do not."
"Is that so?" Talia couldn't help but say. "I will have to try my best then."
Fang Yimu felt a pang of jealousy at the fact that they were both players and had thus so many more years ahead of them to improve themselves.
She, however, was already hundreds of years old. She wouldn't have the same opportunity as these two would. "Speaking of that, will you be leaving soon, your majesty? I thought you would be staying for a while."
"20 years," Alex said. "Err… I guess that is less than 19 now. I will remain until the exchange event is completed."
"Is there a chance that you return after that?" Talia asked.
"Maybe, maybe not," Alex said. "I have no idea about the future right now."
The two girls nodded.
"Come on, let's continue. You guys don't want to end up having to rush through the last fields, do you?" Alex asked.
"No," the girls said and once again started picking up the herbs that they came across and recognized.
Alex taught them about a few of the more important herbs he knew about and the two girls listened closely. He taught them what they were, what they did, what sort of pills they could be used in, how they could recognize it, and what the best method of removing it from the entire plant was.
Around the time night fell, they were done with that field of herbs and it was time to move on to another one.
They crossed the boat as the water below reflected a slightly distorted reflection of the silver moon that hung above in the sky.
The stars glittered in the sky, and while most saw them as nothing more than just that, Alex looked at them in hopes that one day he would go to those lands as well.
After crossing the bridge, they arrived on the second of the ten rows of the Hundred Blossom Valley which contained 10 rows again.
Alex looked at what was in front of him and nodded. "So, this time it is Shrubs, huh?" he asked. "I can't wait to see what the rest of them are."
They went onto the 11th field and Alex started gathering what he could get.
Whisker asked for what he wanted through the robes, and Alex complied, but he primarily focused on ingredients that would help him.
Amongst them, while he could get everything, he had to speed through the Hundred Blossom Valley for the sake of these two girls.
So, he focused only on one primary type of ingredient for now. He focused on ingredients with a lot of Wood energy.
His plan, at least for the first part was rather simple. He was going to gather as many Wood ingredients as he could and make a pill out of it that he could use to improve the Spiritual Root.
Out of all his spiritual roots, Wood had been the worst one, and it had become so very apparent in the Leafshade City where the wood energy had been abundant, but he couldn't make proper use of it due to his lack of a strong Wood Spiritual Root.
If he could gather these ingredients and make a pill that managed to improve his Wood Spiritual root, that would improve his overall level by that very much.
After all, compared to all the different spiritual roots he had, the Wood Spiritual root was the worst out of all of them.
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